Computer vs Human

Why are computers better for some things and humans better for others?

Computers are much more accurate than humans if they have the right data and have been programmed so they know what they are meant to be doing. If there is a long, complicated maths sum, chances are, a human would make a mistake and a computer would get it correct. The thing is, without humans to program computers, they would be absolutely useless. Computers can be good at what we want them to be good at because we can try to program them to do what we can’t. With humans and computers together, many more problems can be solved in a quicker time than humans.

On a spreadsheet, sometimes it tries to do something which is logical to the spreadsheet but not what we want. This means that humans are better for knowing what they want done but sometimes we need to rely on computers to do it for us. Obviously, programming would be used by the human so the computer would perform how we wanted it to however sometimes we might need to change that programming if it goes wrong. That’s another good thing about humans – they can recognise mistakes and work out how to correct them.

All in all, humans have made computers better at things which they find tricky but humans can do so much more than computers as we have brains and can think for ourselves.

I think this is a cause for some thought so I’m off to ponder!

Elsie